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 PUBLIC LAW 108–136—NOV. 24, 2003

117 STAT. 1639

highest rate, for any position under this system or an equivalent system as determined by the President’s Pay Agent designated under section 5304(d), shall not exceed the rate for level III of the Executive Schedule. The payment of the rates shall not be subject to the pay limitation of section 5306(e) or 5373. ‘‘(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), the applicable maximum shall be level II of the Executive Schedule for any agency that is certified under section 5307 as having a performance appraisal system which, as designed and applied, makes meaningful distinctions based on relative performance. ‘‘(c) No employee may suffer a reduction in pay by reason of transfer from an agency with an applicable maximum rate of pay prescribed under subsection (b) to an agency with an applicable maximum rate of pay prescribed under subsection (a).’’; and (3) in section 5383— (A) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘which of the rates established under section 5382 of this title’’ and inserting ‘‘which of the rates within a range established under section 5382’’; and (B) in subsection (c) by striking ‘‘for any pay adjustment under section 5382 of this title’’ and inserting ‘‘as provided in regulations prescribed by the Office under section 5385’’. (b) POST-EMPLOYMENT RESTRICTIONS.—(1) Clause (ii) of section 207(c)(2)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: ‘‘(ii) employed in a position which is not referred to in clause (i) and for which that person is paid at a rate of basic pay which is equal to or greater than 86.5 percent of the rate of basic pay for level II of the Executive Schedule, or, for a period of 2 years following the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, a person who, on the day prior to the enactment of that Act, was employed in a position which is not referred to in clause (i) and for which the rate of basic pay, exclusive of any locality-based pay adjustment under section 5304 or section 5304a of title 5, was equal to or greater than the rate of basic pay payable for level 5 of the Senior Executive Service on the day prior to the enactment of that Act,’’. (2) Subchapter I of chapter 73 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting at the end the following new section: ‘‘§ 7302. Post-employment notification ‘‘(a) Not later than the effective date of the amendments made by section 1106 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, or 180 days after the date of the enactment of that Act, whichever is later, the Office of Personnel Management shall, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Office of Government Ethics, promulgate regulations requiring that each Executive branch agency notify any employee of that agency who is subject to the provisions of section 207(c)(1) of title 18, as a result of the amendment to section 207(c)(2)(A)(ii) of that title by that Act. ‘‘(b) The regulations shall require that notice be given before, or as part of, the action that affects the employee’s coverage under section 207(c)(1) of title 18, by virtue of the provisions of section

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